Kepler, NASA’s Spacecraft Telescope is on a mission to find distant planets similar to our own Planet Earth, with the potential to be hospitable to life or contain water. Until now earth and space planet-hunting telescopes have only been capable to seek out planets both larger and hotter than planet earth. Kepler is different; it is designed to find planets the same size and temperature as our own planet. The data and images Kepler is cable of providing is revolutionary. “When the light curves from tens of thousands of stars were shown to the Kepler science team, everyone was awed; no one had ever seen such exquisitely detailed measurements of the light variations of so many different types of stars,” said William Borucki, the principal science investigator of the Kepler Team.  So far all data from Kepler is test data from its first 10 days in space and just a taste of things to come.  We will be following this story very closely.  Stay tuned.